( Exercise first -- )

Things have been going busily but pleasantly through Holiday Season 2008 here! I successfully sent greeting cards to many out-of-town family members & friends (although _geekie_, I think I must have an outdated address for you, since your card came back to me with a chastising note upon it from the postal service), I hosted my family's gift-opening ( Read more... )

Today after work, I went out with my parents to dinner and then...to Davids Bridal Emporium in order to start looking for an appropriate wedding dress. I must admit, I had some trepidation about beginning this process. Let's be frank -- I'm not as thin as I was in high school, and I'm quite vain about my appearance. My wedding day is a day wherein ( Read more... )

So, I am in the midst of my late Spring Cleaning. I am making some good headway on getting my bedroom into a presentable state, and brother John's former bedroom comes next. It's just begging for some dusting. Once I have gotten the upstairs of my townhouse decently clean, the final stage of cleaning will occur: The Sewing Room. I really need to ( Read more... )

( WARNING! Under this cut is an SCA event report followed by girly-girl stuff that is probably very banal and self-indulgent but at the same time upbeat and optimistic. So no emo, but very, very...girly. Click at your own risk. )